Management and Budget Director of the White House of Russell Vought (Center), Secretary of Education Linda McMahon (on the right) and White House Advisor Elon Musk (rear government, on the left) appear during a cabinet meeting in the White House on February 26, 2025 (photo Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Washington – the United States Education Department on Tuesday said that he crosses a significant number of agency employees via “Power reduction“The trial, leading to the work of the department to about half of the number on the spot when President Donald Trump took office.
According to senior officials of the department speaking against the background with reporters on Tuesday evening, about 1315 employees are subject to this initiative. Officials said that employees would receive, starting from Tuesday, 90 days full of remuneration and benefits and will have television from Wednesday to March 21, when they are placed on administrative leave.
Huge cuts are part of the effort of the entire government of Trump and the billionaire of the White House adviser Elon Musk to reduce the federal workforce to reduce government expenditure and limit what they consider to waste.
When Trump took office, the department had 4,133 employees. After Tuesday’s announcement, the agency said that about 2183 employees would remain. According to Tuesday evening press release.
According to senior officials of the Department, the department also dissolved 63 test workers in February.
Seer officials explained that this reduction of staff will not affect the department’s ability to conduct investigations on civil rights, introducing a federal application for student assistance, financing the title and for school districts with low income and other statutory functions that Congress gave the agency.
Older officials confirmed earlier reports that office buildings in Washington will close on Tuesday evening for security reasons and open again on Thursday.
“Today’s reduction in force reflects the involvement of the Education Department in performance, accountability and assurance that the resources are focused where they matter: to students, parents and teachers,” said education secretary Linda McMahon on Tuesday.
“I appreciate the work of devoted officials and their contribution to the department. This is a significant step towards restoring the size of the United States education system.”
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Democrats from Congress and leaders of the trade union blew up the cutting Tuesday.
“Today’s elimination of staff are illegal and is a blow to the face of devoted officials who work to make sure that American children have access to high quality education,” said the representative of Connecticut USA Rosa Delauro, the highest quality leadership committee at home. “No president or member of the executive department has the right to position the end of public education, violating the law and unilaterally stealing dollars promised to students.”
Senator Patty Murray, a democrat of the state of Washington, who is the vice -chairman of the Senate of the Commission of Mening, said that the cuts were to bypass the legislative difficulty of eliminating the department itself.
“Donald Trump and Linda McMahon know that they cannot bear the Education Department themselves, but they understand that if you take it to a very core and release all people who help students, families and teachers, you can end up with a similar, ruining result,” she said.
“Ultimately, what they want to do is clear: slow down people who help our children and bowel funds for our students, teachers and schools. It’s about breaking the government for working families – and enriching billionaires like them.”
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said: “Denuding the agency so that it cannot function effectively, is the most cowardly way of dismantling her.”
“The huge reduction in force in the education department is an attack on the possibilities that the dismantling agency and its ability to support students, throwing federal educational programs in chaos throughout the country,” said Weingarten, who manages one of the largest teachers in the country.
Department review
Trump directed himself to the Education Department, especially in the initiative of cutting expenses, repeatedly committing to closing a 45-year-old agency in his pursuit of transferring education “back to the States”.
The department has already seen dramatic changes in weeks since Trump took office – Z Main contract cutsDown Purchase of staff.
Other departments and agencies, including Veteran DepartmentWide staff were also observed in connection with Trump.
Last week McMahon sent E -Mail to the employees of the department As for the agency’s “final mission” of the agency, in which she described her plans for “Przegląd” Federal Agency in detail.
The former director of the World Wrestling Entertainment told employees that “the role of the department in the new accountability era is to restore the legal role of state supervision in education and the end of the excessive implementation of Washington.”
McMahon said: “This reconstruction will deeply affect employees, budgets and operations of the agency here in the section.”
Congress action would be arduous
Even if Trump signed an executive order on the dismantling of the department, only the congress has the right to close it. Each bill on the closing of the agency would meet with extreme difficulties through a narrowly controlled Senate, with at least 60 senators had to pass by Filibuster.
In her statement, Delauro dared to republican legislators to try to eliminate the department through regulations.
“To my republican colleagues: if you want to eliminate the Education Department, put your name on the bill,” she said. “Let your voters it.
Trump’s pushing to transfer education “back to the States” there are also many funds and supervision over schools that already occur at state and local level. For legal reasons, the Department cannot control the school curriculum throughout the country.
